Features

Need details on staffing, timeline, and if anything is blocked.

Lessen the showing of the what's new page

• Lawrence spoke with Ben Hearsum from releng. Currently rewriting server side, which will make it easier to control the what's new page, eta 4-6 months
• releng should be able to help out in the short term with adequate notice (at least 2 weeks)
• need to be clear on the requirements from product management
• bug 459972, releng team has submitted the majority of the work

OS dialog for Mac

• This is really about making the update less silent on Mac, this is a security bug

Removal of OS security dialog for Windows

• Brian Bondy is working on this.
• Initial version to review this week.
• Bypasses UAC as required.
• Still need to prompt in limited user account case. This is work to be completed.
• Should be able to land in 2-3 weeks for FF10.

Add-ons Default to Compatible

• No work for update team.
• Chris will follow up.

Move most of update to pre-shutdown

• Secondary item.
• Mainly moving update to app shutdown as opposed to startup.
• Brian suggests waiting until after the service part is done.
• This will cross all platforms.
• Need to deal with OS shutdown so that we don't end up in an inconsistent state.
• Ehsan will investigate.
• Feature page

New workflow for updating users with incompatible add-ons

• Rob spoke with Asa about this. Need specification better defined.
• Rob will work with UX to flush this out.
• How often will we remind users?

Lessen the display of pre-shutdown app update UI

• Need to firm up how much time we're going to wait.
• Won't add additional value to update.xml in the first version.
• Rob will speak with security and Limi to get a number of how long to wait to prompt.
• Rob will speak with Tim about optimizing the display of the update dialog.
• Feature page

Getting the word out

• Get this into the public's view.
• Rob will put together an overview of the silent update effort.
• wiki page
• blog posts - lmandel, YOUR NAME HERE

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